Wythit's local history information is taken from local resident Peter J Massey's comprehensive website, which contains much more material and old photos.

*Click on the logo above to enter the site

LOCAL HISTORY AT A GLANCE:
Click on the links below for a quick trip through time:

• Ancient Kingdoms

• Domesday - 1086

• Early Days
  

• Timeline 709AD - 1800

• Timeline 1800 - 1926

• Local Government

• Local Justice

• Rebellion & Revolution

• Religious Intolerance

• Society & Housing

• Barry Parker - the Architect of Wythenshawe

• The Early Estate

• Wythenshawe in the 1930s

• Wythenshawe in the '40s & '50s

• Wythenshawe's first schools

• Wythenshawe's first Churches

• Early Anti-Socal Behaviour

• Wythenshawe's first shops

• Wythenshawe's first Traders

• Wythenshawe's first Industries

• Old Halls Farms & Cottages

• Images of Old Wythenshawe

• Judge John Bradshawe

• Wythenshawe & the English Civil War

• Don't Mention the War!

• Roman Manchester

• Victorian Manchester

• Lindow Man 
  (human sacrifice)

• Wythenshawe Hall

• Manchester Airport

• Wythenshawe Hospital

• History of Styal Mill

• History of Council Housing

• History of Garden Cities

• History of Urban Planning

• Alderley Edge

• The Magna Carta

• Parliament – The Origins of Parliament & The English Constitution

• The Acts Of Union – The Making of Great British Politics

• History & Government Policy

• The Future of Wythenshawe

• Garden Cities - the Future

• Life in Styal Prison - Video

  . . . you'll find much more stuff besides all this when you click on the 'Wythenshawe Heritage' logo at the top of this column

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WYTHENSHAWE LOCAL HISTORY GROUP 

Meets on the 2nd Thursdays of the month, 3:00-5:00 pm at Wythenshawe Forum Library. 

*Click on the image-block above to find out when, how, why & by whom Wythenshawe was created.

'If you wish to know the future, you must first study the past'

CLICK HERE to find out more . . .

Wythenshawe (taken from Anglo-Saxon “Withigensceaga” - ‘small wood of withy [willow] trees’) is not new - long before it became famous as being the largest Council Housing Estate in Europe and one of the first grandly designed Garden Cities in the UK, it was noted for it's rich fertile soil in the 13th century, under the name of 'Wytenscawe'. In 1351 it was called ''Wythenshagh' and in 1607 it was known as 'Withenshawe'.

We aim to give an account of Wythenshawe’s remarkable social history and heritage, including the part it played in a Revolution which paved the way for present-day Western democracy and cost a King his head.

If you have any stories, memories or photos of Old Wythenshawe, we would love to hear from you.

Please contact
wythit@fsmail.net

CLICK HERE for the history
of BAGULEY HALL

CLICK HERE for the history
of BAGULEY SANATORIUM

CLICK HERE to find out more about the seige at WYTHENSHAWE HALL during the Civil War

CLICK HERE to find out who we are and where we all came from

1841 CENSUS OF WYTHENSHAWE

UNDERGROUND MANCHESTER

WHERE'S FRED ?

THE COLOURS OF BRITAIN

DR SIMON SHAWDENE’S ‘HISTORY OF NORTHENDEN’

THE GOLDEN GARTER NIGHTCLUB

POUNDSWICK GRAMMAR SCHOOL

ST AUGUSTINE'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL

THE HISTORY OF MANCHESTER'S SCHOOLS

WYTHENSHAWE HERITAGE TRAIL
ROUTE & MAP

THE FULL HERITAGE TRAIL MAP

UNDERGROUND MANCHESTER

MANCHESTER'S EXECUTIONER